Improvement in shade-supporters for lamps and gas-fixtures



` E. STEVENS. SHADE-SUPPORTERS Fon 'LAMPS AND @As-FIXTURES. No.172,518. Patented 52.11.18, 187e.

, "ull X Ehfsmlm r NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ELISHA STEVENS, oF onoMwnLL, CONNECTICUT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 72,515, dated January 18, 1876 application filed December 18, 1&575.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELISHA STEVENS, of Cromwell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain Improvements in Shade-Supporters for Lamp and Gas Fixtures; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to an improved mode of supporting a shade for either a gas-light or an oil-lamp. It is applicable both to swinging Wall-brackets carrying oil-lamps or gas-burners, and to chandeliers or gasaliers.

The invention consists in the combination, with the support carrying the lamp-burner bracket and provided with a stem and suitable lugs on its top, of a shade-Supporting bracket, provided with an eye for Setting over the stem, and recesses for engaging the lugs, in such manner that the two brackets will always preserve their proper relative positions, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In applying my invention to a swinging bracket, the vertical post or center-piece of said bracket is provided at its upper end with a vertical rod or pin, at thebase of which is a notch or two lugs. The shade-supporting arm has its rear end of a thickness corresponding With the Width of the notch, or the Space between the lugs, and is perforated to allow the passage of the rod or pin. The arm is attached to the bracket by passing the rod or pin through thev eye or perforation and lowering the arm until it rests in the notch or be tween the two lugs, in which position it is maintained so as to hold the shade directly over the lamp. By raising the arm clear of the notch, it may be allowed to-swing independently of the bracket; but While resting in the notch or between the lugs, it can only swing simultaneously and parallel with the bracket. The shade is suspended by means ofa ring or crown clasped around the upper part and connected to the front or outer end of the arm by a dove/tail tongue-and-groove joint. The shade is thus held rmly in the proper position, and is easily attached and removed.

In applying the invention to a chandelier or gasalier the arm may be attached to the burner-arm or to the center-piece by a pin and notch, as above described, or by a dovetail or other Suitable joint..

The accompanying drawing represents the invention as applied to a swinging bracket.

Figure l is a side view, Fig. 2 a horizontal section in the line x x of Fig. l, and Fige 3 a vertical section in the line y y of Fig. l.

The bracket may be attached to the wall A in any suitable manner. It is h'ere shown as consisting of a vertical post or cen ter-piece, B, and a burner-arm, C, and attached to the wall by a pivot, b1, on the lower end of the post resting on a perforated lug, al, fastened to the Wall, and by the rounded upper portion b2 of the post passing through an eye, a2, projecting from the wall. At the upper end of the' post B is a round pin, rod, or stem, D, extending upward to any suitable height, and at the foot of said stem is a notch, c, formed by two upwardly-projecting lugs, ff. The shade-snpporting arm Gr may be either straight or curved in any suitable form. Its rear or inner end is of a width corresponding with that of the notch c or space between the lugs f f, and has an eye or perforation, g, for the passage of the stem D. The arm Gis attached to the bracket by passing the stem D through the eye or perforation g, and then lowering the arm until it rests in the notch e, between the lugsff. By this means the arm is held firmly parallel with the burnera'rm C, and the shade carried by it is held in the proper position immediately over the burner.

When the bracket swings to one side or another the arm G moves with it, and always maintains the saine relative position to the burner-arm. v

When it is desired to swing the shade-arm independently of the bracket, it maybe done by raising the arm until it is clear ofthe notch, and then moving it in the desired direction.

The shade H is suspended, by its upper portion or neck It, from the front or outer end of the arm Gr by means ofa ring or crown, consisting of a band, I, surroundingthe neck h, and having its ends attached to a block, J, by screws or otherwise. In the block J is a dovetail groove, t', which engages with a tongue, l, on the end ot' the arm Gr, or the tongue may be on the block and the groove may be in the arm. By means of this tongue-and-groove joint'the yshade is vreadily placed and firmly the-arm G, provided lwith an eye a'tits rear `held in position at the end of the armfandis end, setting over the stem D and into the easily removed when desired. recess e, formed by the lugs f f, substantially What I claim as new, and desire l, unsecure as described.

by Letters Patent, is- ELISHA STEVENS.

In combination with thesupport or3 post B,l Witnesses: carrying the lampor burner'bracket' C, and" BENJAMlN'w. HOFFMAN, provided with the lugs f f, and stemD on top, t FRED. HAYNES. 

